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Best Practice: The Dangers of Over-Automation | HiddenWires

Whenever I discuss the above quote, the first thing that comes into people’s minds is the concept of ‘smart’ home automation – your house has anticipated your needs, leaving you to get on with the task at hand. Unfortunately, today’s systems are simply not intelligent enough to take account of the myriad variables that dictate our mood, our health, the environment around us and how we interact with others. System programming relies largely on conditional logic; if this, then that. Though we can introduce other inputs such as time of day, temperature and occupancy, these are too limited in scope to truly predict our needs.